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Finding which iOS apps can also be installed onto Mac
Hi all,
I've just bought a new M1 MacBook Air and finding apps such as Drambo, Atom2, Digistix, Wotja and MiRack that I've already purchased on iOS can be installed onto the Mac for no extra cost. Others such as Digistix 2 need to be purchased again if I want to run them on Mac.
Is there a way to get a list of all the apps that I've bought on iOS that can be installed onto the Mac without my having to buy them again?
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I don't know but that list would be handy.
For those apps that are iOS apps that are made available on M1 Macs, you can click on your user picture/avatar in the App Store app on the Mac and then select the iOS/iPadOS tab and that will show the apps available that way.
I could easily be remembering this wrong, but I think a dev can mark an app that they have built using MacCatalyst as available on both platforms with the same purchase. I can't really check this now though because on the one AU I tried doing this with, the App Store broke and wouldn't let me add the macOS version of the app for sale. So, I just put it up on my web site instead.
In general, there are a couple of issues that are going to make this difficult. Mac users don't use the App Store. Developers of Mac apps really don't use the App Store. (There are a few notable exceptions but this is mostly true.) I'm pretty sure that there is no way for a dev to know an individual has purchased an app on the iOS App Store so that they could give a code to the user on the Mac outside the App Store. On the reverse side, a dev giving out codes for the app store on iOS for purchases outside the app store on the Mac would be at risk of being banned on the iOS App Store (it feels like this to me at least and I wouldn't risk it as a small developer).
Your best option is probably to click through to the dev's website off of the iOS App Store and see if they have anything available there. But, if it isn't either a free app or one that is a simple made available on M1 Macs from the iOS version, it isn't likely that the dev will make it free on the Mac because you bought it on iOS.
I know that some people somehow extracted the apps from their iPad and copied them over to their M1 Mac. But that is quite hacky and I also doubt that it’s fair to the developers and also probably not legal.
@krassmann That trick worked for a while, but not any more.
I agree it’s basically unfair to a developer, but I don’t think legality comes into the picture unless one is making money using the app or if one is stealing the app and distributing it over hacked software download sites.